E-Sports India
International DOTA 2 Prize Pool reaches 5.5 Million
Valve Software’s prize pool for the fifth International Dota 2 Championship began its crowd-funding campaign last Thursday night with a $1.6 million purse to start, but that number has skyrocketed in the several days since. Sales of the TI5 Compendium, a sort of virtual “program” offering in-game challenges, fantasy league-style predictions, and in-game cosmetic rewards have since contributed an additional $3.9 million to the tournament’s potential winnings. Completing activities in the Compendium increases its level and increases the speed at which rewards are unlocked. However, the points earned through these activities can also be purchased and applied to further speed up the leveling process. While the Compendium’s base price is $9.99, Valve is selling an ...
Respawn Cup Round Up
So we are done with the first ever Respawn Cup which also was 2015’s First Global Offensive LAN Tournament in India and we would like to thank you all for your support in making this event a success. We would especially want to thank the teams that took part in the tournament, even those who came to just show to your support, we really appreciated it. We had a great time being able to interact with teams, both professional and newly formed. We learnt a lot about the gaming community and more importantly the various twists and turns a tournament like this entails. Due to unfortunate turn of events, like the failed servers (which is a prevalent issue here in India) we had to alter the tournament structure which resulted in increasing the winnings, which I guess isn’t a bad thing...
NVIDIA Experience Zone comes to Mumbai
The second NVIDIA Experience zone is now at Gear Up Gaming Cafe, Mumbai. NVIDIA has launched the initiative in Mumbai in Powai which will see the transformation of the top gaming cafes into NVIDIA Experience Zones in 8 major cities in India. In these cafes gamers can now experience high end PC gaming on the best and latest hardware around. We think that this is a great initiative by NVIDIA India for converting a regular gaming cafe into the Experience Zone and turning the 5,000 square foot cyber cafe into a place where gamers can experience high-end PC games such as Watch Dogs, Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag, Call of Duty: Ghosts and Titanfall in all its brilliance. Earlier, the first of its type was unveiled at Bangalore’s League of Extraordinary Gamers (LXG). At this zone you’ll find a ...
NVIDIA Experience Zone launched in Bangalore
NVIDIA has launched a new initiative called the NVIDIA Experience Zone, which will see the transformation of the top gaming cafes into NVIDIA Experience Zones in 8 major cities in India. In these cafes gamers can now experience high end PC gaming on the best and latest hardware around. We think that this is a great initiative by NVIDIA India for converting a regular gaming cafe into the Experience Zone and turning the 5,000 square foot cyber cafe into a place where gamers can experience high-end PC games such as Watch Dogs, Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag, Call of Duty: Ghosts and Titanfall in all its brilliance. The first of its type was unveiled at Bangalore’s League of Extraordinary Gamers (LXG). At this zone you’ll find a set up of a mix of Battlebox gaming PCs as well as s...